SUMMERTIME©
26/03
By Joan Dixon
2193 Hollow Road, RR1, Fonthill, On, LOS 1E6
905-892-9667, Fax 905-892-1014
email jodixon@netcom.ca, web www.joandixon.net
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PALETTE:
DELTA CERAMCOAT ACRYLIC PAINTS
2505 WHITE
2001 ANTQIUE WHITE
2054 GOLDEN BROWN
2516 CALYPSO ORANGE
2409 NAPTHOL RED LIGHT
2510 ROYAL FUCHSIA
2508 OPAQUE BLUE
2572 MEDIUM VICTORIAN TEAL
2536 MEDIUM FOLIAGE GREEN
2568 LEMON GRASS
2116 BLACK GREEN
2402 SANDSTONE
2025 BURNT UMBER
BRUSHES:
DALER ROWNEY ROBERT SIMMONS SIENNA
Series SN60 Flat shader #2,#4,#12
Series SN51 Liner #10/0
Series SN611 Pointed Round #3
ROBERT SIMMONS SIGNET
Series 40R Round Bristle #1, #3
Preparation: Base the slate with ANTIQUE WHITE
Trace on the pattern.
Sky: Float OPAQUE BLUE of the top of the sky and walk down stroking
back and forth across.
Cottage Roof and chimneys, base with SANDSTONE. With a dry deerfoot,
shade, with a stipple on the left of the chimneys and dormers
with DK BURNT UMBER. Highlight with stipple of GOLDEN BROWN.
Walls basecoat WHITE, windows BLACK GREEN. Outline the windows
and base the door with GOLDEN BROWN. With WHITE, float about
1/8” from the top (turn the clock around to float, jiggle
hand to make the pleats, on the lace valance)
Float under the window ledges, down the left side and top of
the door with
BLACK GREEN, float panels in the door with DK BURNT UMBER,
repeat the shading under the window ledges with OPAQUE BLUE.
Float BLACK GREEN under the roof and again with OPAQUE BLUE.
Glaze the chimneys (3/4 glazing medium or water with 1⁄4
paint)
NAPTHOL RED LIGHT.
Trees Distant trees on the right side above roof, stipple with
MEDIUM
VICTORIAN TEAL GREEN, add a little OPAQUE BLUE to the teal and
put in some shadows.
The bushes to the right of the cottage stipple LEMON GRASS +
MEDIUM FOLIAGE GREEN.
The tall trees stipple with BLACK GREEN highlight on the right
side with
MEDIUM VICTORIAN TEAL GREEN.
Pull up the trunk and branches of the Birch trees either side
of the cottage,
highlight on the right of the trunks with GOLDEN BROWN.
also do the branches of the bush in the front of the cottage,
The trees overhanging at the top stipple in with the bristle
fan brush first with BLACK GREEN, MEDIUM FOLIAGE GREEN, LEMON
GRASS.
Bushes Stipple the ones on the left of cottage and the distant
right, with MEDIUM VICTORIAN TEAL +OPAQUE BLUE. Add blossoms
of lilac, with a mix of ROYAL FUCHSIA + OPAQUE BLUE + a little
WHITE
Fence pull down with GOLDEN BROWN, highlight on the right side
with CALYPSO ORANGE, shade to the left of each slat with DK
BURNT UMBER.
Walls Beside the fence and in the front base with SANDSTONE,
shade on the left and under each stone. Glaze (3/4 glazing medium
or water and 1⁄4 paint, ) the distant wall with GOLDEN
BROWN.
The front wall highlight the stones with WHITE. On both walls,
shade under the top stones all the way along with DK BURNT UMBER.
Grass Base with MEDIUM FOLIAGE GREEN, stipple with LEMON GRASS
+ MEDIUM FOLIAGE GREEN.
Path Base with SANDSTONE, shade with OPAQUE BLUE under the gate
and along the path on the right side.Flowers Along the wall
using an old #2 flat held vertically, stipple the blue flowers,
OPAQUE BLUE + WHITE, highlight the tops with WHITE. The white
flowers stipple MED FOLIAGE GREEN, then dab on the WHITE flowers.
Add NAPTHOL RED LIGHT dots for the roses on the tree, right
of the door. To the left side of the house dab CALYPSO ORANGE
+ WHITE.
With a #2 flat held vertically.
In the front starting at the left, pick up NAPTHOL RED LT on
the corner of the #2 flat, then WHITE on the other corner. Make
a C and backward C for the rose circle, dab some MEDIUM FOLIAGE
GREEN leaves. Next mix some WHITE with a touch of NAPTHOL RED
LIGHT for pale pink.
Do the C and backward C roses again. Now pick up WHITE on small
deerfoot bang on your palette for a few times, then dab in the
white flower, dot in between with the MEDIUM VICTORIAN TEAL
for the leaves.
With the MEDIUM VICTORIAN TEAL on your #2 flat tip into WHITE
lay the brush down, move around the leaf shape, pick up ROYAL
FUCHSIA + OPAQUE BLUE on old #2 flat .
Hollyhocks next #2 flat and pale pink mix, touch in the WHITE,
squash the brush flat on the surface and twist round, do three,
then tap the top two, repeat with FUCHSIA and NAPTHOL RED LIGHT,
the leaves are the MEDIUM VICTORIAN TEAL GREEN tipped in the
WHITE, do the half squashy leaves as you did the flowers above.
The daisies next are stroked in with #1 round brush and WHITE,
GOLDEN BROWN centers.
The blue flowers behind are dabbed in with your dry deerfoot,
OPAQUE BLUE + WHITE.
The pink flowers next are FUCHSIA + WHITE place on be double
dipping with the pink and WHITE and #3 round brush.
The last flowers are dabbed on with a #3 round, like a pyramid,
first with CALYPSO ORANGE double dipped in WHITE, then the lilac
mix double dipped with WHITE, last WHITE flowers.
Front Grass Pull up grass by flicking up with deerfoot first,
then the liner brush with the greens on your palette..
Highlights Scrub WHITE and the deerfoot on the front of the
house, the footpath.
Shadows Glaze the left side of the cottage with very thin OPAQUE
BLUE.
To complete
Sand lightly, wipe and varnish with DELTA CERAMCOAT INDOOR/OUTDOOR
SATIN VARNISH Thanks for dropping
by!
Happy Painting!
TTFN Joan |
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